Time-recorder.



G. E. LARRABEE.

TIME RECORDER. APPLICATION FILED APEv 14, 1913.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914..

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TIME RECORDER.

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TIME RECORDER.

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TIME RECORDER.

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TIME REGORDER.

APPLIGATIUN FILED APR.14,1913.

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TIME RECORDER.

AIPLIOATION FILI APR. 14,1913.

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TIME RECORDER. APPLIOATIDN FILED AP13.,14,1913v mififi m. 255% 2 c I f) an an 1 KO- imrrnn srArrns ATENT OFFICE.

CLINTON E. Lanaaiannor' BINGH'AMTON, NEW YORK, Assieiiori 'ro INTERNATIONAL TIME nncoiinine COMPANY or new YORK, or ENDIOOTT, NEW YonK, A Conro- BATION or NEW YORK.

TIME-RECORDER.

Application filed April 14,1913. Serial No. 760,951.

To all whom, it may concern.

Be it'known that I, CLINTON E. LARBABEE, residing at Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements-in Time-Recorders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In time recorders which print on a recordsheet the times of arrival and departure of employees tive movements in two directions. inthe same plane, between the record sheet and the print ing devices. or. typewheels, one movement,

being at right angles to the other. Thus in the sO-called card machine, in. the.coinnion form of which each workman has his own record sheet or card which is dropped into a vertical chute. or receiver, the card is raised each day to bring a new horizontal day-line to the impression point and is shifted laterally at suitable times tospace the in-aiidbut imprints on the partic: ular day-line that happens to be at the printing position. In the so-called dial machine, in the common form of which the record-sheet is wrapped around a cylindrical drum and bears therecords of a plu-,

Itillll}; of workmen, its axis to ()I'd-llllGS' to the printing point, and the drum or the printing wheels are shifted at the proper times in a direction parallel to the drunis axis to space the in-and-out im; prints.

Bysuch the drum is rotated on methods as the above the times of distinlst on the record calculated on the basis he himself makes and which is constantly open to his inspection. It the workman arrives late or departs early, the fact appears in the record and the exact time he was at work can be deducted. This involves scrutiny of each imprint, to see if it is late or early, or, in other words, irregular 4 and as such examination of each imprint consumes considerable time in the aggregate, particularly f the number of records to be examined is large, it has example by printing the regular OI OIbillllQ registrations in blue, and the irregular or it is customary to provide relabring the diiierent workmens, rec-.-

I been proposed 'to print regular and irregular 7 registrations with distinctive characteristics, as for late-arrival and early-departure regi'stra tions in red. Then a mere glance at the workmans record is suflicient to show whether on any day he arrived late or left early. That invention, described in U. S. Letters Patent of Dey and Dey, No. 786,011, has gone into extensive use and has proved to be of great practical value.

My present invention is designed to provide a time recorder which shall make the regular and irregular registrations' sharply distinctive, without, however, the necessity of printing themiii different colors: For thispur'pose the machine is so constructed and organized that ,the regular and irregular registrations are. printed on different parts of the record sheet, with the result that a glanceat the record, as inthe case of the two-color scheme, will show whether the workman has been absent or irregular within the period covered by the record.

To this and other ends the invention 8onsist-s in. the novel features of construction and. combinations of elements hereinafter described. p 1.

The invention is applicable to -a great variety of time recorders, but in the accompanying drawings I have shown only one embodiment of the invention, applied'to a card-machine of the type described in my .priorPatent No. 935,812, issued- September 28th,1909.,. i

v Referring now to the drawings, Figure '1 shows the apparatus in front elevation, without the clock and the usual inclosing casing. .Fign2 is a side view of the same, showingalso a portion of the casing. Figs. 3 and .4 are detail side views, partly in vertical section, showing different operative ositions of certain parts of the apparatus. ig. 5 is a detail front view showing difien ent operative positions of the member which shifts the cardreceiver.

Fig. 6 is a detail side v ew, partly in section, showing the mechanism for setting the member "which shifts the card-receiver. Fig. 7 is a section I on line 7-7 of Fig. 8, and Fig. 8 is a. section on line 8 S of Fig. 6, looking in the direc- .tion oi the arrows in each. case. Figs. 9 and 10 are views similar to Fig. 8 but showing different operative positions of certain parts. Fig 11 is a detailview of-part of the mechanism for rotating the cam which determines the position of the card-receiver. Fig. 12 is a detail view of the devices for indicating half and irre ular re istrations on the stancea card-receiver, designated by 1,Which ri ht-hand half of the card.

lhe record-support which carries orsupports the record-sheet is in the present in- "is open at the top to receive the card and has its central portion open to permit the printing hammer 2, (Figs. 2 and 3), to carry the-card rearwardly against the ink-ribbon 3 and thetime-printing devices or wheels'indicated bye. The receiver is mounted to slide laterally on rails 5, 6, and means are usually provided to limit the depth of insertion of the record card, for the purposes before mentioned.

The printing hammer is pivoted in a bifurcated arm 7 fast to a transverse shaft 8 and is normally held slightly retracted from contactwith the record card (when the same is in the chute or receiver) by a spring 9,

Fig. 1. Loose on the shaft 8 is the manual operating lever 10 which the operator actuates-to effect a registration, and pivoted on said lever is a trip finger or pawl 11 arranged to engage a finger 12 rigidly mounted'on shaft 8. Fast to the same shaft is an arm 13, connected to a spring 14 which urges the shaft in the clockwise direction (as seen in Figs. 3 and 4) and hence tends to throw the hammer 2 toward the card-receiver.

From the foregoing it will be seen that on depression 'of the lever 10 the pawl or hooked finger 11, engaging the finger 12, will retract the same, thereby rocking the shaft 8 and retracting theprinting hammer as shown in Fig. 4:; As the operating lever descends, the depending end 11 of the hooked finger or pawl 11 engages a camstop 15, on a fixed part of the apparatus, with the result that the pawl is lifted out of engagement with the finger 12, as is clearly shown in Fig. 4; whereupon the spring 14% acts to rock the shaft 8 and throw the printing hammer against the record-sheet. l-Iaving struck its blow the hammer is caused to rebound by the spring 9. On release of the operating lever 10 the latter is raised to. its normal position by a suitable spring (not shown) and the hooked paWl111 rides over the fin er 12 as shown in Fi 3. p a 7 For the purpose of adjusting thereceiver laterally it is connected by a link 16, Figs. 1 and 5, arching over the printing hammer, to an arm or lever 17 pivoted at its lower end to a fixed plate 18. On the arm near its pivoted end is a stud 19, and immediately above the stud is the end 20 of a horizontally extending member 21, which is adjust able longitudinally in a substantially rectifor example) and its end 20 depressed, the

linear path for the-purpose soon to be explained. The end 20 of said member is provided with adownwardly opened V-shaped notch having oppositely inclined edges 22, 23, and terminating at its apex in a slot or notch 24: adapted to fit the stud 19. Assuming the parts to be in the position shown in F ig. 1, it will now be clear that if the member 21 be shifted to, the right (as in Fig. 5

edge 22, engaging the stud-19,w1ll swing the arm 17 to the right and with it. the receiver 1 until the slot 24 engages the stud, as shown in dotted linesin Fig. 5. More over, it is evident that if the receiver had previously been moved far enough to the right to bring the shifting stud 19 under the inclined edge 22 the arm 17 would on depression of the member 21, be carried leftwardly'and with it the receiver. It will therefore be seen that no matter in what position the receiver may be, themember 21 will, when depressed, shift the receiver and locate it in a position corresponding to the adjustment of said member. From this function the member 21 may be conveniently termed the locating member or bar. Said member-is normally held in its raised posi, tion by a pivoted arm 21*, Figs-.2 and 6,

elevated by a spring 21 5 For the purpose of adjusting or shifting the locating member to right or left as necessary to bring about the results described above, it is pivotally connected at its left end to an arm 25 fast to a rearwardly extending 10o rock shaft 26. At the rear end of the shaft (see Figs. 2, 6 and 8) and rigidly connected thereto is a/ sleeve 27, and fast to the sleeve is a lever 28 one end of which is formed as a stop 29. Loose on the sleeve, alongside of lever, is a secondlever, 30, having one end engaging a specially shaped cam 31 and its other end connected to lever 28 by a coil spring 32,'serving, as will be readily understood, to hold the lever 30 in yielding engagement with the cam, and with the projection 83 resting on the stop-end 29 of lever 28, as shown in -Fig. 8. The cam is rotatably supported by a stud or short spindle '34 on a fined. plate 35, and it will be seen that as the cam rotates (clockwise as seen" .in Fig. 8)

the lever 30 will be rocked, carrying wit 1 it, through the medium of spring 32, the lever 28 and thereby rocking the shaft 26 counterclockwise! This movement of the shaft is counterclockwise as seen in Figs. 1 and 5. It will also be evident that .by suitable independent means the shaft 26 can be rocked in either direction, since movement clockwise (as seen in Fig. 8) will sepa rate the levers 28, 30, as shown in Fig. 10, While movement counterclockwise will simply lift the lever 30 off the cam, as shown in Fig. 9. Thus by rotating the cam from the clock the shaft 26 will be rocked and ,positions which are consecutive the card-receivershifted at predetermined intervals; while by means independent of the earn the shaft can be rocked and the receiver adjusted to any position at any time.

The record which my present machine is designed to make is shown in Fig. 14, in which it will be seen that the irregular registrations are printed on a portion of the card distinct from the *portion devoted to regular registrations. This means that in registrations made after the hour .of beginning work 7 :30 arm. for example) and up to, say. 9200 a. m., must be printed in the irregular morning-in columns of the cards, which in turn means that the first shift of .the locating member 21 mustbe made not to the regular morning-out but to the irregular mormngun position. Smnlar provisions must be made for the other irregular regis- 1 trations.

The position taken by the receiver when adjusted by the cam depends upon the configurations and size of the cam and the proportions of the associate parts. The cam employed in the present embodiment of my invention is shown in initial, or regular morning-in, position, in Fig. 8, in which it will be seen that the wiper or lever 30 lies in a drop 81*. T ne particular cam illustrated is designed to cause the record-receiver orsupport to be shifted'at predetermined times to regular positlons which are consecutive in space-though not always successive in respect of the times at which the shifts are made; and, at appropriate times intermediate to the instants at which the receiver is shifted from one regular position to the next con.-.ecutive' regular position, to irregular in space though not always successive in time. At a suitable time in the forenoon, aft-er the beginning of work, the cam is rotated oneeighth of a revolution (by suitable mechanism hereinafter described) in the clockwise direction, and the rise 31 comes under the wiper and moves the locating member 21 rightwardly (asscen in Fig. 1) to such position that when it. is depressed it will bring the record-sheet support 1 to the irregular morning-in position. The locating member remains in this position till a suitable time (for example 9 2 00 a. m), and then the cam is given another one-eighth turn, bringing the rise 31 under the wiper. This shifts the locating member still farther forward, or

to the right, so that at the: next imprint the locating member will shift the card-receiver to the irregular morning-out position. At the end of the morning period of work,-. noon, for instance,-the cam receives a third impulse, which brings the drop 31? under the wiper and moves the locating member backwardly to the position at which. the

card-receiver Wlll be shifted to the regular morning-out position. At the proper time,

say 12:15 p. m., as an example, the cam is given a fourth impulse, bringing the rise 31 under the wiper and shifting the locating membera short distance forward or toward the right, far enough to bring the regular afternoon-in column to the impression point. Here the locating member remains until the beginning of the afternoon period of work, say until 1:00 p. m., at which time a tifth impulse -is given to the cam. This brings the rise 31 under the wiper and shifts the locating member again forward or toward the-right, far enough to cause the next i1nprint to be made in the irregular afternoonin column. At an appropriate time, for instance QzOO p. m., a sixth impulse is im parted to the cam. This brings the rise 31 under the wiper, which sets the lOCtllilIlg member for registration in the irregular afternoon-out column of the record riect. At this position the locating member remains until the end of the afternoon period, 5100 p. m., for example, when the seventh impulse imparted to the cam brings the rise 31 under the wiper, thereby shifting the locating member to the position for printing in the regular afternoon-out column. At midnight or at any other ap n-opriate hour ail eighth or final impulse is given to the cam, which brings the drop 81 back under the wi er and restores the )arts to initial or regular morning-in position. 7

From the above it will be seen that upon the usual and common travel of the card-receiver orrecord-sheet support from one regular position to the next there is imposed an additional, t-avcl to the appropriate irregular positions. Moreovcr, in the complete cycle the two travels alternate, in time, in groups of two positions each. Thus after the regular morning-in come two successive irregular positions, namely, irregular morning-in and irregular morning-out, followed by two regular positions, to wit, regular morning out and regular afternoonin. Then follow two irregular positions (irregular afternoon-inand irregular afternoonout), after which come two regular-positions regular afternoon-out and regular morning-in; and soon, day after day.

The wiper 30 is held yieldingly on the cam 31 (through the medium of spring 32). and the locating mon'ibcr-QI is urged leftwurdly as seen in Fig. 1, by aaveightcd arm 26*,

Figs. (5 and 13, on thercar end of shaft 20.

The rotation of the 12111131 by the clock is effect d by the following instrumcutalities. Rigidly connected to the cam. on the same shaft or spindle, is a ratchet wheel 36 (Figs. (1,7, 8, and 11) the number of whose teeth dctern'iines the number of steps taken by the locating bar (and hence the-rcm rdsheet support also) in the rightward and leftward movements thereof, Thus the ratclnat illustrated has eight teeth; and hence at each til of projection 46 on lever 4.0. Hence as the,

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The other seven steps of the ratchet. and cam general, upon. the size and relative propor- 51 on a vertical shaft 52 connected-by any movement of the ratchet corresponding to one tooth the locating bar will. be shifted to. the right or left, a distance depending upon the size and shape of the cam; and, after seven such adjustments have been effected to their initial positions. At such position of the bar the card-receiver, when the bar is depressed, will be brought to its first regular position, for printing regular morning-in provide for the several other regular and irregular registrations. Pivoted alongside of theratchct is a pawl-carrier 37, on which is pivoted a pawl 38 in position engage the ratchet. The pawl-carrier is itself connected by a vertical. link 39 to a horizontal lever 10 (Fig. l) pivoted at the right of the machine adjacent to a time-setting wheel ll. Thus at each upward movement of the lever 40 the pawl and its carrier will be raised, retracting the pawl over a tooth; and at each downward movement of the lever the pawl, will advance the ratchet through an angle depending upon the location of the stop t2 with which the pawl engages; the location of the stop in the present instance being such that with an upward movement of lever 40 sufficient to carry the pawl backward over one tooth the downward movement of thepawl will rotate the ratchet through an angle equal in extent to one tooth, that is, one-eighth of a revolution. To give the downwardly moving pawl 38 sutficient force to actuate the ratchet with certainty the lower end of link 39 may be provided with a weight 39*. Fig. 11, and to hold the ratchet against possible reverse movement during retraction of the pawl, a holding pawl SS -is provided, pivoted on the plate or bracket and maintained in engagement with. the ratchet by its weighted end 38".

The time-setting wheel Fll has a circular recess or slot 43, and adjustably mounted in the slot is aseries' of lifters 4A, each having an inclined cam face or edge to engage the correspondingly inclined edge of a lug wheel rotates (counterclockwise as seen in 1) each hfterengaging the lug will raise the lever 40 a distance depending, in

tions of the parts and on the position of, the lug 46 on its lever. In the machine'illus trated it is intended that each upward movement of the lever will be sufiicientin extent to retract the pawl 38 past one tooth on the ratchet. i

Rigidly connected with the time-setting Wheel 41 is a gear i7 in mesh with a pinion 48 fastto a shaft 49 which also has fast to it. a gear 50. The latter meshes with a pinion suitable means (not shown) to the clock (ndt -that time the locating bar 41 will be driven by the clock, at a'rate depennent, for a given rate of rotation of the shaft 52, upon the proportions of the gears and pinions just mentioned, in. accordance with the well understood principles of toothed gearing. Thus the time-setting wheel may be made to rotate at any convenient rate. In the machine illustrated, in, which the cam 31 is used, the wheel ell revolves once in twenty-four hours, and hence eight lifters let are employed (only three being shown), arranged so as to lift the lever 40 at the times whichadjustment of the locatin'g bar ,21 is desired. Of course the wheel may, revolve at practically any desired rate, the number and'positions of the lifters being varied accordingly as will be readily understood The locating bar or member 21 is depressed loy thev devices now to bedescribed. Fixed albngside of the printing hammer 2 is a vertical frame-plate 53, (Figs. 1, 2, 3, and l), having a vertical slot 54 in which the locating bar moves. Pivoted to the frame plate is an actuating plate 55, provided with a rearwardly extending finger 56 projecting over and engaging the locating bar. The'act uating plate is connected to the- 195 main operating lever 10 by a link 57, that as the lever is depressed to effect a time registration the plate 55 will be swung rear wardly, thereby carrying the finger 56 down ward and depressing the locating bar. inembering that the printing hammer is not tripped or released to strike its blow until the main operating lever is ,fully depressed, as shown in Fig. 4E, it will be seen that by fully depressed, as in the figure just men tioned, andthe card-receiver located in adjusted position. Thus at each printing 0 oration the receiver is first brought to toe position of adjustment corresponding tothe position of the locating bar, which latter is of course, in the normal operation of the machine, set by the clock.

will likewise be I Extending slightly above the frame-plate center of curvature at the pivot of the actuating plate 55, is an extension. 58 of the actuating plate, having a guide finger '59 mm bracing said arc-shaped top. Fixed to the card-receiver 1 is a plate 60, having its for ward part bent upward and provided with a series of flaring notches 61, eight in num; ber, arranged in correspondence with the eight positions of the receiver; When the actuating plate 55 is depressed, the end of the extension 58" enters the notch which has been presented thereto by the movement of the receiver through depression of the 10- catingmember. If for any reason the fit between the stud 19 on arm 17 and the slot 53 the top of which is arcshaped with its v 24. in the locating bar should not be close,

, and the receiver therefor not accurately in position, the locking extensionfiS; striking one or the other inclined side ofthe notch in plate 60, cams the receiver into the exact position required, as will be readily understood.

Under a window 62 (see in the casing 63 in front of the card receiver is an indicator plate 64 bearing the designations In, Out, etc., as shown in Fig. 12. Slidingon a rail arranged parallel with the path of the card-receiver an index Gill? riage (56 having an-indeX 67 extending over the indicator" plate." Onthe front oft-he carriage is a 'stud 6S, engaging the slotted end of anarm or lever 69 (see Figs. 1 and 5) pivoted at its lower end to a iixed member 70 and pivoted intermediateof itscndstoa receiver will take when he depresses the 30- printing or main operating handle 10-.

As before stated, the locating bar21 can be adjusted at will independently of the clock-driven cam 31. For this purpose the following devices are provided. Rotatably mounted in the front of the casing 63 is a 'short shaft or stem 72 (Figs. 2 and 6) which is also longitudinally movable in its bearing but is normally held in its outermost or forward position by a spring 80; The rear end of the shaft has a fiat stud 81, adapted to enter a corresponding slot 82 in "shaft 26 when.the stem 72 is pressed inward. The shaft 26 can thus be rocked in either direction, and with it the locating member 21; while on release of the knob 73" by the operator the spring 80 at once retracts the stem from engagement with the shaft. In this manner the locating member 21 can be carried to the right or left of themachine; and since the index 67 follows the movementof the locating member to right and left, the operator can easily set the mechanism to bring the card-receiver to any position desired. For example, a work man arri ng very late in the afternoon may find theindexstandin over-the Irregular afternoon out, thus s owing that the imprint would be made in the irregularafteia noon-out column, whereas it should be made in the Irregular afternoon-in column. He therefore turnsthe setting knob 7 3* until the index 67 points to the requisite In 1" space and then actuates the lever 10, wherej upon the record is made in the proper column on his card.

its previously stated, in time-recorders of the type illustrated the day-line which 1s presented to theimpression point depends upon the depth to which the card is inserted in the receiver, and this dependsupon the positions of the bottom of the 1'Cl'V1 commonly known in the art as the abutment or card-lift? which is vertically adjust; able. This abutment, indicated in dotted lines at 823, Figs. 3 and at, iSOPCTfltGtl by any suitable time-control mechanism, such, for example. as that described in Cooper Patent may be combined with my present invention.

"For this purpose the ink-ribbon spools 101, \flllCll carry the two-color ribbon-102, are

adjustable vertically by suitable mechanism not shown) actuated by lifters ,1023 on the wheel 47, similar to those employed on the timesettingwheel ell. These lifters 108 at the proper times raise a lever IlO-loperativcly coimectcd witlrthe aforesaid mechanism by a link 105.

It is to be understood that the invention isnotlimited to the specific construction herein described but can be embodied in other forms without departure from. its.

proper spirit and scope as defined by the appended claims.

\Vhat 1 claim is:

1. In a time-recorder adapted to print on a record-sheet regular and irregular tinierecords distinguishable one class from the other by difference in the positions of the imprints on the recordsheet, the combination of 'nrintingdevices and a recm'd-sheet support constituting.elements of a printing couple having a relative moveinel'it of adjustment, time-controlled adjusting means ojtverating at redetermined times to locate ihe" regular in'i n'ints and at intermediate times to locate the/irregular imprints, and means for bringing the record-sheet and the printing devices together to make the iniprints. I

2. In a time-recorder adapted to printon a record sheet regular andirregular timerecords distinguishable oneiclass from the other by difference in the positions of the imprints on the record-sheet, the combination of printingdevices and a record-sheet support constituting elementsof a printing couple one of which is adjustablerelatively to the other to a plurality of regular and irregular positions, time controlled means for shiftingthe adjustable element at predetermined times to regular positions and at appropriate intermediate times to irregular positions, and means for bringing the record-sheet and the printing devices together to make the imprints.

3. In a time-recorder adapted to print on a record-sheet regular'and irregular timerecords distinguishable one class from anj other by difference in the positionsof the time-controlled means for shifting thereopositions successive in couple, a shiftable member a record-sheet regular ing coiiple,

old-sheet support at predetermined times to regular positions and at appropriate intermediate times to irregular positions, and means for bringing the printing devices and the record-sheet together to make the imprints.- v

4. In a time-recorder adapted to print on and irregular timerecords distinguishable one class from another by difference in the positions of the imprints .on the record-sheet, the combination of printing devices, a record-support adjustable ,to a plurality of regular and irregular positions, time-controlled meansfor shifting the record-support to two regular time, and to two in regular'positions successive in time, alternately, a

5, In atime recorder adapted to print on a record-sheet regular and irregular timerecords distinguishable one class from an other by difference in the positions of the imprints on the record-sheet, the combina-- tion of printing devices and a record-sheet support constituting elements of a printing associated with one of said elements to adjust same relatively to the other, a cam' associated with said member toshift the same at predetermined times to regular positions and at in termediate' times to irregular positions, time-controlled means tdactuate the cam, and mechanism for bringing the recordsheet and the printing devices make the imprints.

6. In a time-recorder adapted to print on a record-sheet regular and irregular timerecords distinguishable one class from the other by diflerence in the position of the imprints on the record-sheet, the combination of" printing devices and a record-sheet support constituting elements of a printone' of said elements being adjustable relatively to the other; a locating member shiftable independently of the adjustable element, for shifting the latter to positions determined by the position of the former; time-controlled means for shifting the locating member at predetermined-times to consecutive regular positions and at intermediate times irregular positions nonconsecutive with the regular positions; and

together to means for bringing the printing devices and the record sheet together to'niake the imprints.

7. In a time-recorder adapted to print on a record sheet regular and irregular timerecords distinguishable one class from the other by difference in the positions of the imprints on the record-sheet, the combination of printing devices and a rec ord-sheet support constituting elements of a {printing couple, one of said elements being adjustable relatively to the other, time-controlled means for giving the adjustable element a travel through a series of consecutive regular positions and imposing thereon a travel through a series of consecutive irregular positions.

8. In a time-recorder adapted to print on a record-sheet regular and irregular time records distinguishable one class from the other by' difference in the positions 01 the imprints on the record-sheet, the combination of a record-sheet support, and mocha: nism for shifting the record-sheet support relatively to the impression V series of consecutive regular positions and through a series of consecutive irregular "positions holly beyond the said lar positions;

'9. In a time-recorder adapted to print on a record sheet regular and irregular timeseries of reguother by difference in 'the positions of the imprints on the record-sheet, the combina'* tion of a recordsheet support movable in a rectilinear path past the impression point, mechanism for shifting the support to two successive regular positions, then to two successive irregular positions beyond the regular positions, and so on alternately, said records distinguishable one class from the mechanism including a cam having rises and 1 drops to determine the sequence and extent :of themovement of the support, and time controlled means to. aetuate the cam.

10. In atime-recorder adapted to print on a'record-sheet regular and irregular time records distinguishable one class from the other by difference in the positions of the imprints on the record sheet, the combination of a record-sheet support; and means for shifting the support to regular and irregular positions, having a drop followed by two rises, a drop, three rises, and a drop and time-controlled mechanism to actuate the cam at appropriate times.

11. In a time-recorder adapted to print on including a rotary cam I i a record-sheet regular and irregulartimerecords distinguishable one class from the other by clifi'ere'nce' in the positions of the imprints on the recordsheet, the combination of a record-sheet support, an' adjustable locating member adapted to shift the ,v said support, a time-controlled cam associated with the locating member a its 'ticns clistinguislmbie one cltes from the other by dliiference 111 the pt l'tlOllS I the filltS 011 the recorcl sheet, the cell raw e mi: at record v act suppcrt elu'ltabie leti 1011 the reccrd-slieet relatively .1 'ictr'm I an adjustable locatmember: su'ceoz't, cam haw- 3 2i series of rises mops: t0 shift'tlle 29 1e at-lng member through eel, es of ceeeec'm twa; regular positions and tl'irc 1gb ail-series of ccnsecutire irz eguiar positions Wholly be yoz d' tile regulcr positions, cicclmlriven means to actuate the cam at appropriate i11- termls, mechanism for actuating thel bcetlug member 0 shift the recordeheet support, mecheniem for making the time-imprints cc. Lllf; recordeheet, and iieemml eetw fitting common to said mecilel in a a reel, rcl

rec 0th er by tmpriirl's the ccmbination cf :1 record-e" suppert sl'liftable relatively to the siec point, an adjustable locating associated with. the support in st same; :i rock-arm connected With the leczm ing member to adjust the same, It which rcclcerm beers for actuation i said, cam l1 Ming; 2L 0 35. and J for shifting the .lccet l. tlr series ccnsccutive regular posit through eeri 1 e of consecutive irre cl i siticne Wholly beyond the regular poer;ices and. manual means i501 aetuatillg the lee-Min member before each print, cpemticri cf the recerder.

" In a timea'eccrtier'eiepte-ci tc print on c, erdeheet regular end irregular time t'lzltwtlfj d1st1ngmml ie cine class free; the

difference in the positions cf the v on the recorctsheet, the combine ticn of a reccrcl-sheet suppert sliifteble let-- erelly past-"the impression point; means; for shifting the support, including a rotary cam. having a (limp 31 rises 31 and 31", 31 rises 31, 31 and 551 and. drop 31', er ranged. in the order named; and time-0cm t1 ecl mechanism to actuate the epin-tc times.

testimony whereof I my ei 'ceture e presence of two subscribing WIEJQBSSGSD CLXNTON TLLARRABEE. "l'i'itneeees L l Grimm,

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